President Donald Trump is weighing sending long-range weapons to Ukraine to threaten Moscow as a deterrent to “killing” and not an escalation of war, according to White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday.

While dismissing reports of Trump asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the ability to strike Moscow as “taking words wildly out of context,” Leavitt provided context without details by saying Trump is “working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war” so any conversations about long-range missiles to give Ukraine the ability to strike Moscow is “not encouraging further killing” but an attempt at deterring it.

The Leavitt statements were first reported by NBC News.

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